Penmanship-guide.



L. J. COUBAI..

PENMANSHIP GUIDE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE l1, 1917.

Lz., Patented Ja11.22,1918.

L''U'DIMIRE J'. COUBAL, OF HIBBING, MINNESOTA.

FENMANSHIP-GUIDE.

Specification of. Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, igt.

Application led June 11, 1917. Serial No. 174,092.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LAUDIMIRE J. CoUBAL, a citizenvof the United States,resident of Hibbing, county of St. Louis, State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Penmanship-Guides, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The obj'ect of my invention is to provide a guide or gage by means ofwhich a pupil can easily and quickly determine if the letters or guresin a writingl lesson have been properly formed.

A further object is to provide a guide of such construction that theslightest variation or deviation from the correct outline can bedetected by the pupil.

Other objects of the invention will apf pear from the following detaileddescription.

ln the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification,

The figure isa plan view of a guide or gage for penmanship embodying myinvention.

In the drawing, 2 represents a card or plate of suitable material, suchas mica, celluloid, or any other suitable transparent material havingsufficient transparency to allow figures or characters to be seenthrough it. On the reverse` side of this plate I provide a series oflongitudinal lines 3 in parallel relation and suitably spaced apart andon these lines, also on the reverse side, l arrange the capital lettersof the alphabet following the style or character of penmanship which theinstructor desires to teach `the pupil, and also the alphabet in smallletters and figures from one to ten. l also provide a series oftransverse lines 4, obliquely arranged, for indicating the proper slantof the lines and at onel end, preferably the left hand, I provide shorthorizontal lines 5 for indicating the proper height of the letters andat the loweredge a series of short vertical lines 6 arranged in parallelrelation and indicating the proper spacing of the letters or thedistance between Words. When the pupil has prepared his copy and wishesto test the accuracy of the work, he will place the plate bearing thespecimen of sample letters over the copy so that the letter on the platewill register or coincide with the corresponding letter of the copy andif there is any irregularity vregistration or coincidence of the matterat what angle it may be observed by Y the pupil. This will be due to thefact that the sample or superimposed letters are on the under or reverseside of the plate and consequently when the plate is placed over thecopy the sample letters and the copy letters will be close together andthe pupil cannot fail to noteany variation between them.

Generally in devices of this kind the specimen letters or figures havebeen placed on the obverse side of the plate and unless the pupil lookeddown squarely upon the plate and the letters he could not determineaccurately whether there was any variation or not, as any slightvariation in the angle of vision from the perpendicular would throw theletters out of register and lead the pupil to think his work wasinaccurate,

while, as a matter of fact, it might be Cor-` rect.

rlhe base lines or those running lengthwise of the plate insureconvenient adjustment of the model letters to those to be tested. Assoon as the lines of the plate are placed in coincidence with the linesof the copy, it will only be necessary to move the plate to the right orleft to obtain complete specimen characters with those of the copy.'llhree distinct heights of letters are recognized in modern penmanshipand these li have indicated by the short horizontal lines v5 at the lefthand end of the plate. l have also indicated at the bottom of the platethe proper spacing between the words. The plate may be made in varioussizes and the characters thereon, of course, may be yinodified invarious ways to suit the style of penmanship which the instructor maydesire to teach. A

The card may be placed over any sample of handwriting which it isdesired to test for accuracy of form, slant, height, spacing betweenletters or between words, quality of the line, basing of line, andsmoothness or regularity of the line. l have shown certain letters andfigures on the card, but obviously these may be varied and dierent cardsprovided with different forms of characters or letters, depending uponthe style of the letters or characters the instructor y wishes to teach.

In various Ways, therefore, the details parent plate and a plurality ocharacters may be modified and still be Within the formed on the reversesurface of said plate scope of my invention. for Contact andregistration with the char- I claim as my invention: acters of a copybeneath. 15 9 1. A penmanship guide comprising a In Witness whereof,4 Ihave hereunto set transparent plate having` horizpntal base my hand this23rd day of,May, 1917.

lines thereon-and a plurality o specimen A characters formed in `thereverse surface of LAUDIMIRE J' COUBAL' said plate to rest upon the copycharacter Witnesses: i0 When the plate is superimposed thereon. D. T.COLLINS,

2. A penmanship guide comprising a trans- R. RAY KREIS.

